Table 3.
Motivations for and Associations With Explicit Substance Use by Song Genrea
| Motivation or Association | Specific Genre |
All Genres (n=93)b,c | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country (n=22)b | Pop (n=3)b | R&B/Hip-Hop (n=11)b | Rap (n=48)b | Rock (n=9)b | P Value | ||
| Motivations for use | |||||||
| Peer/social pressure | 9 (41) | 1 (33) | 6 (55) | 28 (58) | 1 (11) | .10 | 45 (48) |
| Sexual | 2 (9) | 0 | 6 (55) | 20 (42) | 0 | <.001 | 28 (30) |
| Financial | 0 | 0 | 1 (9) | 22 (46) | 0 | <.001 | 23 (25) |
| Mood management | 6 (27) | 1 (33) | 0 | 1 (2) | 8 (89) | <.001 | 16 (17) |
| Addiction or craving | 0 | 0 | 1 (9) | 3 (6) | 3 (33) | .03 | 7 (8) |
| Associations with use | |||||||
| Partying | 10 (45) | 1 (33) | 8 (73) | 31 (65) | 0 | <.001 | 50 (54) |
| Sex | 9 (41) | 0 | 6 (55) | 27 (56) | 1 (11) | .05 | 43 (46) |
| Violence | 3 (14) | 1 (33) | 2 (18) | 21 (44) | 0 | .02 | 27 (29) |
| Dealing or trafficking | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 (48) | 0 | <.001 | 23 (25) |
| Humor | 14 (64) | 1 (33) | 2 (18) | 5 (10) | 0 | <.001 | 22 (24) |
| Specific brand reference | 4 (18) | 1 (33) | 2 (18) | 10 (21) | 0 | .61 | 17 (18) |
| Use of a vehicle | 4 (18) | 0 | 2 (18) | 8 (17) | 1 (11) | .93 | 15 (16) |
| Explicit antiuse message | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (44) | <.001 | 4 (4) |
| Limit setting | 1 (5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .52 | 1 (1) |
| Refusal to use a substance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | >.99 | 0 |
a
Among only songs with substance use (n=93).
b
Data are given as number (percentage) of each song genre.
c
Data are heavily weighted by those genres with more representation of substance use (eg, rap and country).